What Can Global Optimizer Do For You?
Vanguard Global Optimizer will help you answer questions such as:
- What product mix and pricing levels will maximize profit?
- How much cash do we need to ensure we can cover all planned activities?
- In which projects should we invest to maximize the portfolio effect and cancel risk?
- How do we shift project schedules to stay within our annual operating budget?
- What production schedule maximizes manufacturing throughput subject to raw material availability?
- What is the minimum amount of inventory we can hold and still achieve high service levels?
- What supply chain strategy satisfies uncertain customer demand while minimizing logistics costs?
Vanguard combines the intelligence of an innovative search algorithm with the speed of grid computing to offer incredible optimization power.
Analytics
Vanguard supports all of
the most powerful and essential methods for risk
analysis, including:
- Monte Carlo simulation:
Model uncertainty to help manage business
risk and simulate complex systems.
- Decision tree analysis:
Choose the best course of action when
future outcomes are uncertain.
- Optimization:
Find the best solution to very complex
problems subject to business constraints.
- Sensitivity analysis:
Determine which assumptions drive your
decisions most.
- Data analysis:
Pull valuable information from
historical or experimental data.
What is Vanguard Global Optimizer?
Built on the Vanguard System platform, the Vanguard Global Optimizer is a true black box optimizer that is based on a proprietary search algorithm. The tendency to get caught in local optima is a common problem for most optimizers. However, Vanguard is very robust and highly resistant to this problem due in part to its unique combination of population-based techniques, heuristics, and statistical analysis. This combination of approaches enables Vanguard to optimize simulations as well, a feat that is impossible for most commercial optimization solvers.
Features include:
- Flexible formulations that allow any problem structure, regardless of linearity, discontinuity, and stochasticity assumptions.
- Support for traditional problem formulations, including Linear (LP), integer (IP), and more.
- Grid Computing to handle complex optimizations with or without Monte Carlo simulation.
- Support for collaborative, distributed modeling.
- Networked for geographically disperse user groups.
- Customizable Web-based interfaces.
- Complete user authentication, access controls, version controls, and quality controls.
- Support for Customizable Functions, ODBC, WSDL/SOAP, Excel integration, File read/write for XML, CSV, TXT, RTF, HTML, and others.
- Automatically importing and structuring your data,
- Performing an optimization, and
- Exporting data back to your business systems.
- Vanguard's LP/IP optimization routines support an unlimited number of variables and constraints.
LP optimization can be integrated
into larger planning and analysis models and linked to
your existing business systems.
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